Wednesday, April 23, 2014

To the regular
cine watchers, the tall good looking person would be recognised as a famous
cameraman and spouse of actress Revathi (they got divorced is not the subject
mater of this post …) …. On a search, understand that this movie itself was
based on a TV mini-serial called ‘twist of fate’ (Pursuit) made in 1989…… a
story of a German Officer who goes to Israel.

I saw and
instantly liked the movie ‘Pudhiya Mugam’ ~ a captivating scene being one at the
airport – where the hero (Suresh Menon) foils a terrorist attempt and saves children. The hero is Suresh Menon and the movie was a
good thriller. The storyline is - Vineeth
and his fiancée Kasturi while romancing in Sri Lanka sees a murder which
results in the death of his fiancée. He avenges her death by killing the people
responsible, and becomes an assassin, and is on the run from the police, and
be. He undergoes extensive plastic surgery on his face and leaves for Chennai, India
to start a new life with a new face and identity. When the assassin (now played
by Suresh Chandra Menon) reaches Chennai airport, he foils a terrorist attempt
and saves the lives of a group of children. Later, he meets Revathi, falls in
love and gets married. Thanks to his heroism, the assassin gets into the Indian
Army and rises in rank as the years go by.

A few years
later, the couple’s grown up son, Vineeth, now resembles his father's
pre-surgery days. The son meets the dad’s old terrorist accomplices in the
airport by chance on his return from U.S.A. The bad guys identify him
and, curious, they follow Vineeth and find the truth about the assassin and his
new life. As they learn that the assassin is now a very high ranked officer who
has access to the army’s secrets, they blackmail him into handing some over to
them. The son on getting to know the
past of the father starts disliking him….. the father a much changed man, takes
on the terrorist all by himself, killing them and getting killed in the act……………
a new theme for tamil cinema of plastic surgery and man changing his face
totally !!!..

Now read
this post in Daily Mail on plastic surgery in South Korea being so good that
people travelling home afterwards need certificates to prove who they are !!!!

For some going
under the knife is by choice … it is for plastic surgery in the hope of looking
a bit different and a lot better. What they may not realise is the chance of looking
so different that they are unrecognisable. The report states that some of South Korea’s plastic
surgeons are so talented that they are leaving their patients with this (un)expected
problem. Plastic surgery in South Korea has
become so successful that some overseas patients are struggling to get through
passport control on their way home after the operations. Those who have flown in from
abroad to have the operations are, in some cases, so transformed that they are
struggling to get through passport control on the way home, Kotaku reports. According
to Korean sites Onboa and Munhwa, some hospitals have resorted to handing out
‘plastic surgery certificates’ to patients to enable them to get home. These
certificates are said to include the patient’s passport number, the name of the
hospital they were treated at and the length of their visit to South Korea.

The
theory goes that these certificates can smooth their path through passport
control. While hospitals have been aware of the problem for a number of years,
it is said to be becoming an increasingly common issue. In 2009, 23 Chinese
women are said to have struggled to return to China
from South Korea
after undergoing surgery. The report states that women who've had plastic
surgery in South Korea
often end up with larger eyes, higher noses and thinner chins. A ShanghaiHongqiaoAirport
officer is quoted as stating that they
had to compare the uncorrected parts with the photos very carefully. Some women are having to renew their
passports after surgery so as to have a new photo included. South Korea is rapidly becoming the
home of plastic surgery and people there have the most cosmetic procedures per
head of population, according to global figures released last year by the
International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons. It is stated that one in every 77 people in South Korea now
goes under the knife or needle in a bid to improve their looks.

Shockingly,
some 20 per cent of women aged 19 to 49 in Seoul admit to going under the knife and one
of the most popular procedures involves reducing excess skin in the upper
eyelid to make the eyes appear bigger and more 'Western'. It is believed that
the rise of the country's music industry is behind the boom, and many patients
visit clinics with photos of celebrities, asking surgeons to emulate American
noses or eyes. Another story of ‘aping the west’ itself rather than their
culture !!